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From: Nate Nagel on 27 Nov 2009 10:02 z(a)tink.net wrote: > <someone(a)some.domain> wrote in message > news:%8CPm.279529$Jp1.66565(a)en-nntp-02.dc1.easynews.com... >> In article >> <d9b14ab6-de86-4e4b-9b0f-b323f98f7409(a)r5g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, >> phaeton <blahbleh666(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> This isn't new, either, suggesting that Toyota's troubles may be more >>>> of a developing pattern than a one-time aberration. Two years ago, >>>> before two-thirds of Detroit's automakers were tempered by the fires >>>> of bankruptcy, the editor of the ostensibly "Japanese-loving" Consumer >>>> Reports apologized to readers for recommending the problem-plagued >>>> Camry V-6. >>>> >>>> He also said the magazine had decided new Toyota models could no >>>> longer be given the benefit of the doubt -- or its prized >>>> "recommended" label. And Toyota's V-8 powered Tundra four-wheel drive >>>> pickup was labeled "unreliable" by the magazine, the unofficial Bible >>>> to discerning car and truck buyers. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> I always take everything Consumer Reports says with a grain of salt. >> >> yeah, a 50 mile square grain. > > I have my own theory about Consumer Reports Ratings, when the ratings > are a reflection of public response - who responds to the typical > survey? Who writes letter to the editor? Who calls a corporate > complaint/compliment line? Those who are not happy. So, in my own > little not so humble opinion, CR public response ratings are skewed to > the negative. I know that they have always excoriated VW, which I don't understand. But my dad still reads it, and he told me that the new A5 chassis Rabbit actually got good marks? My mom has been driving VWs (only two of them!) since 1989 or so... I just hope that they decide to buy a new car before the 1.8T she's driving now is run into the ground. I love that car... nate -- replace "roosters" with "cox" to reply. http://members.cox.net/njnagel
From: Cleo Baines Hafsteder on 27 Nov 2009 11:00 jealous you can't afford to purchase a TOYOTA? HA HA HA HA
From: someone on 27 Nov 2009 11:35 In article <elmop-D36398.08301227112009(a)nothing.attdns.com>, "Elmo P. Shagnasty" <elmop(a)nastydesigns.com> wrote: >In article <KUFPm.280001$Jp1.233898(a)en-nntp-02.dc1.easynews.com>, > someone(a)some.domain (someone(a)some.domain) wrote: > >> >> >Maybe you mean harakiri? >> >> seppeku is the correct name. >> >> the other is stupid slang. >> > >> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harakiri >> > >> >The most famous form of seppuku is also known as harakiri (y�R�0, >> >"cutting the belly") and is written with the same kanji as seppuku but >> >in reverse order with an okurigana. In Japanese, the more formal >> >seppuku, a Chinese on'yomi reading, is typically used in writing, while >> >harakiri, a native kun'yomi reading, is used in speech. >> >> exactly, "common useage" for the peasants. > >doesn't say that at all. > >I think your mom is calling you upstairs for dinner. typical no nothing attempt to assert pretend authority. you have no mother, you reproduced from fusion like all bacteria.
From: someone on 27 Nov 2009 11:36 In article <8dCdnWrqedf_eZLWnZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d(a)giganews.com>, <z(a)tink.net> wrote: ><someone(a)some.domain> wrote in message >news:%8CPm.279529$Jp1.66565(a)en-nntp-02.dc1.easynews.com... >> In article >> <d9b14ab6-de86-4e4b-9b0f-b323f98f7409(a)r5g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, >> phaeton <blahbleh666(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> This isn't new, either, suggesting that Toyota's troubles may be more >>>> of a developing pattern than a one-time aberration. Two years ago, >>>> before two-thirds of Detroit's automakers were tempered by the fires >>>> of bankruptcy, the editor of the ostensibly "Japanese-loving" Consumer >>>> Reports apologized to readers for recommending the problem-plagued >>>> Camry V-6. >>>> >>>> He also said the magazine had decided new Toyota models could no >>>> longer be given the benefit of the doubt -- or its prized >>>> "recommended" label. And Toyota's V-8 powered Tundra four-wheel drive >>>> pickup was labeled "unreliable" by the magazine, the unofficial Bible >>>> to discerning car and truck buyers. >>>> >>>> >>> >>>I always take everything Consumer Reports says with a grain of salt. >> >> yeah, a 50 mile square grain. > >I have my own theory about Consumer Reports Ratings, when the ratings are a >reflection of public response - who responds to the typical survey? Who >writes letter to the editor? Who calls a corporate complaint/compliment >line? Those who are not happy. So, in my own little not so humble opinion, >CR public response ratings are skewed to the negative. > tree huggers and hippys.
From: Desertphile on 27 Nov 2009 14:55
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:39 -0800, "Cleo Baines Hafsteder" <cleo(a)gbaines.net> wrote: > jealous you can't afford to purchase a TOYOTA? Who can? -- http://desertphile.org Desertphile's Desert Soliloquy. WARNING: view with plenty of water "Why aren't resurrections from the dead noteworthy?" -- Jim Rutz |